Breaking News: Dakota is OUT of the Villa!
The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
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3.8 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Dakota Mortensen has been officially edited out of Vanderpump Villa, but what does this mean for the rest of DadTok? And his participation in Alex Cooper’s Unwell Winter Games?
Ben and Producer Heather have all the details on what happened and how it could affect his future in reality TV.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | This is the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast with IHartRadio. |
| 0:10.3 | It's the almost famous podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | We're here today with some breaking news. |
| 0:14.9 | I am joined by our wonderful producer, and now I guess we could call her like a co-co host she jumps in a lot |
| 0:23.3 | Heather because the breaking news has happened and it's not stopping and so on a whim |
| 0:30.5 | Heather sends me a text she says can we jump on and record I say yes and Heather's always there |
| 0:37.1 | to be our trusty, |
| 0:38.6 | fill in, an expert on all that's happening in pop culture. Here is today's episode. I'll read |
| 0:46.0 | the headline. Hulu's Vanderpump Villa is caught up in the Taylor Frankie Paul drama |
| 0:52.5 | as Dakota Mortensen is cut from season three. |
| 0:58.4 | So I'm going to go out on a limb and say you've probably never seen Vanderpump Villa. |
| 1:02.8 | I don't know what it is. |
| 1:04.0 | But I'll tell you about it. |
| 1:05.3 | Okay. |
| 1:05.5 | So obviously, Lisa Vanderpump is famous from being a real housewives of Beverly Hills. |
| 1:12.0 | She is a restaurant tour with her husband. |
| 1:14.9 | They have been for over 20 years. |
| 1:17.1 | Then she got her first spinoff on Bravo. |
| 1:19.8 | That was Vanderpump Rules. |
| 1:21.0 | That was all about the waiters and waitresses that worked at one of her restaurants in West Hollywood called Sir. |
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